With dozens of basketball leagues around the world, a handful of Latter-day Saints have found their way onto the courts of professional teams and are making a difference.

Father's Day just like Mother's Day can be hard for many people. There are those who are reminded of loss, of challenges, of fears, and of failures. But here's one reason we can always celebrate this holiday.

You might have missed what went on the last week, but we've put together our list of the week's most popular stories so you don't miss a beat. For May 11 through May 17, these are LDS Living’s top hits.

Maybe it’s the fact that there’s a baby growing inside of me, but I have thought a lot lately about the potential and possibilities we each bring to this world, and I think that is why a quote shared in this week’s All In episode stopped me in my tracks.

A few days ago it was brought to our attention that we could actually serve a mission... Right now! Re-reading that statement isn’t going to change what we just shared with you. You are reading it right, we said we could actually contact our stake presidents and ask to serve a service mission right now, and you probably could too. However, that’s not the purpose of this post. While looking up information about serving a service mission we came across a few web-sites that we found very interesting. The first one is LDS Tech, it had information about serving in the Inner-city, we don’t know why that sparked our interest (seriously, we really don’t :/) but it did. The LDS-Tech site directed us to another site at lds.org. This site gave a more detailed message about serving in the inner-city. Disclaimer: We are just two sistas trying to get a passing grade in our Relief Society class, which by the way ain’t always easy. While we may not know how to make a big ol’ beautiful bowl/platter of green jello. There is still something we can do in helping to build the Lord’s kingdom.

What powerful insights: "Our best mothering happens when we mother authentically-not when we’re trying to do it like someone else. So relax. Don’t force it. . . . Although you aren’t perfect. You ARE their perfect mother."

I must have walked past the bishop’s office at least 10 times that night. To my 15-year-old brain, it felt more like 100, but I kept walking by even though Mutual had been done for a while. Trying to look nonchalant, I walked toward the lobby one more time to see if the bishop’s door was open, just like I had the week before and the week before that. It hadn’t been open any of those other weeks, but tonight might be different. Palms sweating, stomach aching, and head hanging low, I slinked one more time through the church building.

Sometimes in our Mormon culture, we hear something so often we start taking it for granted—or worst, we accept it as gospel doctrine. But here are a few quotes that you might be surprised LDS prophets and leaders didn't actually say.

What originally started out as a school project for Marriott School graduates Dave Fryer and Greg Wilson changed over time from an idea to a living, breathing business. Fryer, a recent graduate from Park City, and Wilson, a graduate from Seattle, both completed degrees in business management with an emphasis in entrepreneurship. Their product Go Time Smelling Salts started off as an idea for a product in a class. Now they have their own business called Mountain Top Labs and have recently launched Go Time in stores.

As a scholar, I study philosophy. As a disciple of Christ, I study how to “pray without ceasing” (1 Thessalonians 5:17). As a disciple-scholar, my work is to practice philosophy as an unceasing form of prayer.